Picture.



'Patented Mar. 26;. lso. H. H. vmTuN.

P'l C T U R E (Application Bled June 16, 1900.)

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, zen of the .United States, residingat Lafa and exact description .of the invention, such the linex2 2 in Fig. `l.

` ldark sheet, leaving those portions of the pic- 'i ture which are intended to appear light in they i finished article blank or open,"as indicated background, as also suchi porti ture as it is desired 'to appear posing all white portions shown within the limits of the black background be cut outensentation have been ITED "Smit-S iPTENT OFFICE- HNRY H. vINioN, or LAFAYETTE,

INDIANA.

i *PlcTURl-Lj srEcIFIcATIoN forming part of Leners Patent No. 670,826, datemi/:arch se, 1901.

Application iilecl June 16,1900.

To @ZZ whom, timmy con/@erm 1 Be itjcnown thatI, HENRY H.VINTON', abiti-- yette, in the county of Tippecanoe and State of Indiana, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Pictures; and I do'. hereby declare the'following to be a full,- clear,

as will enable others skilled in the'art to whichA itappertains to make and use the same'.

My invention relates to improvements in.' particularly to such pictorial have the appearance of `a fpic.-`Y ture and at the same time' the'qualities of a transparency.

ence tothe accompanying drawings, wherein the saine parts are indicated-by the saniecharacters of reference throughout both views.

, Figure l is a front face view of a pictorial transparency made according to my inven-lV tion, and Fig. 2 isa sectionalview takenon My invention consists in a picture or'tiansparency produced in .the following manner:` Upon a dark, preferably black, "sheet A, as shown-in the drawings, is sketched or outlined by a' pencil or. other suitable instrument the light portions of the picture or pictorial. representation intendedz to be represented. The remaining portions of the picture, which are supposed to lie in shadow, and the entire ons of the picdark, are left the picture so tirely from the plain* The light portions of outlined are then out out en at I 2 3 4 5 6 in Fig. 2, which is a sectional View. through the picture shown' in Fig. 1. The arrangement of thelights and shadows in thepictu're is subject to the will and taste of the artist. At this stage the appearance of the black or dark-colored sheet A :will be similar tothe representation in Fig. l, suptirely.A After those portions of the picture which are to appear-light in the finished reprecut out, as above described, a thin plain white or colored translucent sheet B (shown in Fig. 2) is pasteda upon or otherwise applied to the back of the black or'dark-cclored lsheet A, so as to preferably serainmotra. Npmuail entirely coverlone side of the said sheet A'.

black or other dark-"coloredsheet havin gboth Vfaces the same dark 'shade ispreferred for the outline-sheet A. l Y

The picture producedbythe super-posed sheets has the combined effects of, a blaok, and-white o1; other deeply-contrasting drawingr and atransparency. Then the. picture thus produced is interposed between theob` server and a subdued light:or approximate darkness, -white-dawing of deep contrast; but when i the picture is interposed between the observer y 'the effect is that of a black-jandand a strong light the effeetis that of atr'ansparency The white paper being on one face ofthe picture and covering th x the black-and-white, picture eect will be most pronounced upon the face .thereowhile the transparency effect will bev-practically the same fromjboth sides when the pictureis' interposed between the observer anda stro'ng light Thusdf it be desired that the picture.'

be placed in the window of a blildinglsol as to appear as apictnrein the day time anda transparency A Wpuld beturned toward the daylight; but if it be desired-'that the` at night the face of the picturel picture should appear from within the building as a transparency in the day-time and a picture at night the face of the picture would be reversed. Having' thus described my invention, what I claim,

1. A portrait or picture 'composed of a plain 'dark sheetfsaid sheet having thehigh lights of tlie picture cut out entirely therefrom; and

. v2. A portrait or picture composed of a lain dark sheet, said of the picture cut out entirely therefrom; and a plain contrasting sheet mounted upon the .back thereof, substantially as described..

3. A portrait or picture composed of a plain and desire to secure by Letters Pat- Y .ent of the United States,V isfa4 plain substantially colorless sheet mounted .upon the back thereof,

substantially as .described.

95 sheet having the high lights' A IOO dark sheet, said sheet having the high lights of the picture cut out entirely therefrom; and a plain translucentsheet mountedI upon the back thereof,` substantially ,as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

- HENRY Il. X'IN'ION. `Witnesses:

, FRANK D. l5LACKIsToNF.,`

JOHN, CHALMERS Winsor;

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